Oil/Gas Pipelines
Organic “High-Build” Spray-in-Place Liners – An Emerging Class of Rehabilitation Methods
As the water distribution infrastructure continues to deteriorate across North America, there is a continued need to develop pipeline rehabilitation methods that are cost effective and minimally disruptive, while also minimizing the time a pipe must be taken out of service.
Frozen Sand Provides Directional Drilling Challenge
What acts like solid rock, but really isn’t rock and is located in the heart of the Midwest? That’s a good question, and Tim Huttmann with TH Construction Company, based in Omaha, NE, knows the answer.
Complications On The Rio Grande
Repairing or replacing old, deteriorating utility infrastructure that has been buried in the ground for years and often directly beneath homes and businesses is a challenge that has become common for the nation's utility providers.
New Robotic Inspection Technology Helps ID Potentially Critical Situation
Early this year, water officials in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, became aware there were cracks in one of the city's primary large diameter sanitary sewer trunk mains that threatened the Don River watershed and homes in one neighborhood.
NY awarded largest EPA grant in history
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded more than $430 million to New York state for wastewater infrastructure projects, which the EPA says is the single largest grant in its history.
Tech Upgrade Enhances Utility’s Locating Program
Massachusetts is rich in history, but not everything “old” is charming. An example is the aging infrastructure that is often hidden or buried in many cities throughout the state.
Insituform InsituMain
Insituform has announced a new product for pressure pipe rehabilitation.
CIPP: Insituform Technologies
Insituform’s iPlus Infusion achieves a tight fitting pipe-within-a-pipe by implementing a pull-in installation method.
CIPP Leaves Diverse Attractions Undisturbed
Reno, NV, offers many attractions to live up to its billing as “The Biggest Little City In The World.” When choosing a contractor for a sewer rehabilitation project that involved both busy downtown and more remote idyllic settings, city of Reno engineers selected cured in place pipe (CIPP) specialist PIPEnology to avoid disrupting the city’s activities.
CIPP: RS Lining Systems
CityLiner is a premier mobile CIPP technology providing everything customers need to maintain and repair wastewater piping systems.
CIPP: AMerik Engineering
Saertex-Liner is a 100 percent fiberglass liner designed for gravity pipe systems.
First Look: See-Through PVC Panel Rehab System Introduced By National Liner
National Liner LLC has introduced a trenchless rehabilitation lining process that uses see-through PVC panels to rehabilitate circular pipes, box culverts and structures of other shapes.
CIPP: International Pipelining Technologies
IPL Technologies is the North American leader in UV-light CIPP for sewer mains and storm water pipes.
CIPP: Reline America
Blue-Tek CIPP liners and equipment by Reline America are environmentally safe with undetectable styrene levels in third party testing.
CIPP: Inliner Technologies
Inliner Technologies provides solutions for deteriorating pipelines ranging in diameter from 4 to 96 inches.
Sliplining: Ameron Fiberglass-Composite Pipe Group
Ameron offers both round and non-round, segmental section, gasket joined, Bonstrand RPMP for the slipline rehabilitation of deteriorating pipe applications.
Sliplining: CONTECH Construction Products
A2 Liner provides economical cost savings over cured-in-place pipe – up to 50 percent depending on the installation.
Sliplining: Prime Conduit Vylon Pipe
Why just line your failing sewers when you can slipline them with a new Vylon Slipliner Pipe?
Sliplining: Underground Solutions
Increasingly, sliplining of compromised water pipelines with Fusible PVC is becoming the preferred method of rehabilitation for water lines in congested suburban centers.
Tunnel Project Helps Meet San Antonio Growth
The population of the city of San Antonio has quietly grown to make this pleasant south Texas city the second largest city in the state and seventh largest in the U.S. With a population of more than 1.3 million, San Antonio ranks just behind Houston and ahead of Dallas in population.
Sliplining: HOBAS Pipe USA
HOBAS pipe’s high strength-to-weight ratio, smooth surface and flush, push-together joints are ideal for sliplining.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Ditch Witch HDD Systems
The Ditch Witch directional drilling product line is the only brand on the market that covers all major systems.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Sharewell LTX Series
Sharewell’s heavy-duty LTX series of Lo-Torque Hole Opener is ideal for pipeline projects.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Ballantine Backreamers
Ballantine offers a complete line of backreamers for nearly all ground conditions.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Horizontal Technology RockReamer
The RockReamer is a versatile, cost effective hole opener for HDD – cutting downtime as easily as it cuts rock.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: INROCK's XTM Mud Motor
INROCK’s new XTM Mud Motor was designed to increase the torque capacity of the drive shaft and bearing assembly.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: American Augers Fly Cutter
The Fly Cutter is recommended for use during directional drilling operations in clay and sand soil conditions.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Railhead DirectBore
The new DirectBore I – 13” rock bit is designed with the big drills in mind.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: Vermeer T-Rex, Diamond Cutter
The T-Rex and the Diamond Cutter reamers are designed to help HDD operators efficiently pull product through tough ground conditions.
Downhole Directional Drilling Tools: HammerHead TriHawk I
The HammerHead TriHawk I drill bit is an aggressive horizontal directional drilling cutting tool for drilling in soft rock conditions up to 8,000 psi.
- OSHA cites Florida contractors for trench safety violations at sewer and excavation sites
- Cadiz to reuse steel from terminated Keystone XL pipeline for California groundwater project
- Lynchburg, Va., breaks ground on largest-ever Blackwater CSO tunnel project
- Biden-Harris administration invests $849 million in aging water infrastructure, drought resilience
- The EPA announces $6.2 billion in funding for Iowa and Kansas water infrastructure